Verb | 1. | wipe out - use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
2. | wipe out - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" | |
3. | wipe out - eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out" Synonyms: sweep away | |
4. | wipe out - remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" Synonyms: erase | |
5. | wipe out - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" Synonyms: obliterate, kill | |
6. | wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" Synonyms: cancel out |